AN online preview of a new art installation in Tilbury has been launched to mark the start of Black History Month.

The Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories, an outdoor art and sound installation conceived by artist Everton Wright, who goes by the name EVEWRIGHT, was due to open last month but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Organisers said: ""The installation will open to the general public as soon as we are able to do so based on government advice. The artwork will then be on display through to Spring 2021."

However, views of the artist's work can now be accessed online here.

It is the first site-specific art and sound installation created at the Port of Tilbury and the UK dedicated to people of the Windrush Generation.

The installation is described as an immersive visual art experience, installed on 72 windows with 432 panes of glass collaged with photographs, documents, boat passenger tickets and memorabilia.

The artwork is installed in an original passenger walkway 55 metres long. It includes audio stories of over 160 minutes listening time in 10-minute segments across 22 listening windows, about the lives of some of the elders and their families, whose images are featured in the installation.

It is a tribute to those that travelled not only on the Empire Windrush but to the many that came before and the many that followed that journey to the UK.